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61) Dead over heels
Author
Series
Aurora teagarden mystery volume 5
Language
English
Description
Aurora Teagarden surprises even herself with how quickly she's settled in to domestic bliss with her new husband, Martin. But when the body of Roe's nemesis, Detective Jack Burns, drops from an airplane to land in her yard, Roe once more finds herself involved in a mysterious death. It isn't long before Roe realizes that strange things are happening to those around her, including anonymous gifts" appearing at her home. Suspecting that everything is...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
296 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Melanie Travis loves her teaching job at Connecticut's elite Howard Academy, where plans are underway for a Spring Pageant to honor the school's fiftieth anniversary. Immersed in the preparations, Melanie is hurrying to retrieve a painting of one of the illustrious co-founders when she comes upon a disturbing scene: Eugene Krebbs, the Academy's elderly caretaker is arguing loudly with a girl half his size. Before Melanie can learn more than the girl's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HARRY BOSCH AND LINCOLN LAWYER SERIES.
An electrifying standalone thriller that breaks all the rules! With an introduction by Stephen King.
Death is reporter Jack McEvoy's beat: his calling, his obsession. But this time, death brings McEvoy the story he never wanted to write--and the mystery he desperately needs to solve. A serial killer of unprecedented savagery and cunning is at large. His targets: homicide...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
281 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a fellow dog-handler mysteriously vanishes and a body is found, Melanie Travis finds herself confronted with a wealth of suspects, from a disgruntled dog groomer to a bitter ex-boyfriend.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
255 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
With her in-laws scattered in the wake of a devastating hurricane and her husband C. K. determined to help them rebuild, Amanda Pepper plans to resign from Philly Prep, but first she must investigate the supposed suicide of a local woman.
Author
Series
A Lucy Stone mystery volume Book 24
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
An uneventful Thanksgiving season is shattered by the overdose-related death of a wealthy investor's daughter, a tragedy that Lucy Stone links to the possible schemes of the victim's pregnant stepmother.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
With her dream of opening The Cookie Jar taking shape, Hannah's life matches the hectic December hustle and bustle in Lake Eden--especially when she agrees to help recreate a spectacular Christmas Ball from the past in honor of Essie Granger, an elderly local in hospice care. But instead of poring over decadent dessert recipes for the merry festivities, she instantly becomes enthralled by Essie's old notebooks and the tale of a woman escaping danger...
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Theo Snyder is at the end of his rope. One minute he was on top of the world, his documentary film The Basement a massive critical and commercial hit, the next crestfallen when his latest film was canceled after an embarrassingly public misstep. As his desperation grows, he makes a bold decision: to pursue the story of the notorious "Halo Killer," Jasper Ross-Johnson. But delving into the life and mind of a serial killer could prove more deadly than...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First Kensington Hardcover Edition.
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kate returns to her home town to be a caregiver to her grandmother and decides to start an ice cream shop business. Soon she discovers that her frenemy, Ashley, from high school has been selling frozen treats at the bakery across the street. Shorty after exchanging some heated words with each other Ashley is found murdered in the bakery.
71) A cryptic clue
Author
Series
A Hunter and Clewe mystery volume 1
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A retired librarian is hired by an eccentric collector who needs an archivist for his huge, expanding compendium of rare books, where she discovers the dead body of her new employer's ex-girlfriend, who was also the heir to a pharmaceutical fortune.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Covering a polo match for the Observer, Emma's job is to take note of the real players off the field, Newport's well-bred elite. But the fashionable facade is breached when Emma is confronted with a crime scene. An intruder from the polo match lies dead at the foot of a grand staircase at Chateau sur Mer.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
251 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Once again, Leslie Meier gives mystery fans a reason to give thanks for the eccentric charms of Tinker's Cove and the intriguing exploits of its resident amateur sleuth, Lucy Stone.
Turkey Day Murder
Tinker's Cove has a long history of Thanksgiving festivities, from visits with TomTom Turkey to the annual Warriors high school football game and Lucy Stone's impressive pumpkin pie. But this year, someone has added murder to the menu, and Lucy intends...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Physical Desc
246 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Already juggling four kids' hectic schedules, a rambunctious dog, an attention-craving husband, and a full-time reporter job, Lucy Stone can't possibly squeeze in another responsibility. . .or can she? When Sue Finch asks for help planning her daughter Sidra's wedding to Internet millionaire Ron Davitz, loyal pal Lucy willingly dives into the world of white lace, roses, and chair rentals. What could be more perfect than a backyard Summer wedding in...
76) Twice as dead
Author
Series
An Odelia Grey mystery volume Bk. 6
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
295 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Odelia Grey comes across a corpse at a wedding reception for her best friend's daughter, and her search for the killer becomes more complicated when the police discover that the victim, a female wedding planner, turns out to be a man.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The small town of Lachlan, Florida, was rocked last year when two bodies were uncovered in the roots of a fallen tree. Despite their lack of investigative experience, Sara Medlar; her niece, Kate; and Jack Wyatt found themselves at the center of the mystery, working together to reveal the truth behind a decades-old secret in the sleepy town. After a narrow escape, they vowed to never again involve themselves in something so dangerous--until Janet...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sabrina Salter traded a high-pressure job as a Boston meteorologist for life as an innkeeper on sun-soaked St. John. But storm clouds roll in when Sabrina finds Carter Johnson, her most attractive guest, tucked up in a hammock way past check-out time...and he's not just dead to the world, he's just plain dead, with a bullet hole in his chest.
This isn't the first time Sabrina has seen a dead body, and the island police are well aware of that. Thanks...
Author
Series
Granny Reid Mystery volume 3
Language
English
Description
G.A. McKevett returns with the third installment in her spin-off series set in the 1980s--thirty years before her popular Savannah Reid series in the small Georgia town that Savannah grew up in, with her beloved--and much younger--Granny Reid as the sleuth! Stella "Granny" Reid's youth wasn't the only thing changed by time in tiny, nondescript McGill, Georgia. Except even in the Reagan era, the Southern town still had a way of attracting downright...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the widely disliked chair of the library board of trustees and a local professor turn up dead, Greer Hogan, a librarian-turned-sleuth who has an uncanny knack for deduction, starts digging and stumbles upon a cache of decades-old secrets that could rock the town to its core.